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Microsoft is once again serving up a new holiday deal each day in its online and brick-and-mortar stores, starting Monday, December 5 at 12 a.m. PT, or 3 a.m. ET.

It’s hard to say what the best post-Black Friday sale on tech products is, but Microsoft is reprising its “12 days of deals” sale and it once again looks promising.

It officially kicks off on Monday, December 5 at 12 a.m. PT, which is really Sunday night to folks on the west coast and early Monday morning for folks on the east coast (3 a.m. ET). For those in the middle of the country, well, you can take your pick between late night or early morning.

Like last year, each day for 12 days we’ll see a new sale on select items. Here’s the full list of deals, according to Microsoft’s sale preview page:

Day 1 (December 5): Save up to $1,000 on select Intel PCs, with prices starting at $199.

“Cannot find the recipient update service responsible for domain ‘dc=sample,dc=domain,dc=com’. new and existing users may not be properly Exchange-enabled.”

The Windows Firewall service must be started before Setup can continue.

Analysis:

You checked the Exchange log (ExchangeSetup.log). It showed:

Error ONE:

[2/16/2015 1:11:59 AM] [1] [ERROR] Unexpected Error
[2/16/2015 1:11:59 AM] [1] [ERROR] The operation could not be performed because object ‘exchserver01’ could not be found on domain controller ‘adserver01.domain.com’.
[2/16/2015 1:11:59 AM] [1] Ending processing.
[2/16/2015 1:11:59 AM] [1] [ERROR] The Windows Firewall service must be started before Setup can continue.

You verify from the Domain Controller adserver01.domain.com that the Exchange server object is there. You also verify that the Exchange Server is able to communicate with the adserver01.domain.com

Error TWO:

“Cannot find the recipient update service responsible for domain ‘dc=sample,dc=domain,dc=com’. new and existing users may not be properly Exchange-enabled.”

You will need to remove the RUS manually. Most likely Exchange 2003 wasn’t decomm-ed properly (if you are no longer using Exchange 2003).

Solution:

Error ONE:

Ignore the error “[2/16/2015 1:11:59 AM] [1] [ERROR] The operation could not be performed because object ‘exchserver01’ could not be found on domain controller ‘adserver01.domain.com’.”

Just proceed with starting the Windows Firewall service and rerun the update of Service Pack.

Error TWO:

Remove the RUS (If you no longer have any Exchange 2003 server in your environment).

You will not be able to delete the Recipient Update Service (Enterprise Configuration) by using Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 System Manager. Perform the following steps to delete theRecipient Update Service (Enterprise Configuration) by using ADSI Edit (AdsiEdit.msc):

Back in August I posted a blog announcing the beta release of Azure AD Connect. Since then we have received a lot of feedback and made improvements in AAD Connect and AAD Sync, including multi forest support and password write back.

The biggest thing we’ve learned from you, our customers and partners, is that rather than a bunch of different tools (DirSync, AAD Connect, AAD Sync, ADFS, etc.) you want one simple, integrated tool for connecting your existing Windows Server Active Directory with Azure Active Directory. You’ll be happy to know that we’ve acted on your feedback!

Today we’re releasing a public preview of the “new” Azure AD Connect (you can download it here).

Azure AD Connect is “new” because it is now one integrated tool that includes all the advances of AAD Sync and the features from the beta release of Azure AD Connect into simple, fast & lightweight solution. Azure AD Connect has everything you need to connect your Windows Server AD(s) and Azure AD with only 4 clicks.

Now you can get started using Azure AD in under an hour, no new hardware required!

With this preview you can choose Express Settings or Custom settings just like before, only now you get the latest sync engine and capabilities.

Because it’s our first combined wizard and it is in Preview status, we are not supporting production deployments for this release. Our next release will be production supported.

Our goal is to bring 100% of the previous DirSync functionality into Azure AD Connect. Before we GA Azure AD Connect we will bring all Dirsync functionality in.

We’ve received a lot of great feedback from you and have incorporated most it. But that doesn’t mean we’re done. Please keep the feedback coming!

Our goal is to GA Azure AD Connect with additional sync options, seamless migration from Dirsync, and production support in the next 90 days.

Please note there will no longer be separate releases of Azure AD Sync and Azure AD Connect. And we have no future releases of DirSync planned. Azure AD Connect is now your one stop shop for sync, sign on and all combinations of hybrid connections.

In Exchange Management Console (EMC), under Move Request, there is some mailbox being moved. This action was not done by the local IT administrators. The mailbox affected are mailboxes already migrated to Office 365.

Solution/Explanation:

Run a Get-MoveRequest and if you see something like below, you are actually seeing the database being moved from Exchange Online DB to another Exchange Online DB. This is part of Exchange Online DB maintenance. There is no impact to users.

ExchangeGuid : 404b747c-d942-4ecc-ba61-9459c234a8d3

SourceDatabase : APCPR04DG020-db001

TargetDatabase : APCPR04DG011-db170

SourceArchiveDatabase :

TargetArchiveDatabase :

Flags : IntraOrg, Pull, MoveOnlyPrimaryMailbox

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When you are trying to delete a verified domain name in Office 365, an error pops up saying that some users or Office365 services are still attached to the domain.

Root Cause:

Just like what the error said, some of the Office 365 services or users are still attached/assigned to the domain name that you are trying to remove.

Solution:

Things to check:

Ensure that no users are associated with the domain that you are trying to delete. You can verify this by going into Users And Groups, and Edit a user. Ensure that the domain you are trying to delete, eg, abc.com, is not listed there.

Ensure that no security groups/distribution groups have the accounts attached to abc.com. Security groups/distribution groups can be access by logging into Office 365, click on Users And Groups, and click on Security Groups.

If you have just deleted the users, or changed the domain for each individual users, you will need to wait for a while (1 min?) as it will need to sync the changes to the different Office365 service settings.

If the accounts are uploaded to Dirsync, you will need to stop the Dirsync synchronization to change the accounts to a Cloud Only account. Then, you will need to do step 1-3 above to delete the Security groups; and/or manually modify the e-mail addresses fields in Office 365, Exchange Online.

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MIISClient.exe shows that a bunch of user accounts failed to sync with the error “Insufficient Permission”.

Solution:

Certain permissions needed by MSOL Service Account went missing (for whatever reason!). All we had to do is to recheck back the permissions.

Step 1: Run the Azure Active Directory Sync tool Configuration Wizard

Make sure that the latest version of the Directory Sync tool is installed and that you run the Azure Active Directory Sync tool Configuration Wizard. When you run the wizard, one screen prompts you to enable rich coexistence. Complete the wizard, and then start directory synchronization.

Alternatively, you can run the Enable-MSOnlineRichCoexistence cmdlet after the Directory Sync tool is installed to enable the write-back feature. This cmdlet must be run by using enterprise credentials or should be run by the enterprise admin.

Step 2: Confirm MSOL_AD_Sync_RichCoexistence permissions

If step 1 doesn’t resolve the issue, check that the MSOL_AD_Sync user belongs to the MSOL_AD_Sync_RichCoexistence group and that the group has Allow permissions to the user who is experiencing the issue, where write-back is not working for the following attributes:

msExchSafeSendersHash

msExchBlockedSendersHash

msExchSafeRecipientHash

msExchArchiveStatus

msExchUCVoiceMailSettings

ProxyAddresses

To do this, follow these steps:

In Active Directory, make sure that the MSOL_AD_Sync_RichCoexistence group exists and that the MSOL_AD_Sync user is a member of the group.

In the on-premises environment, use Active Directory Users and Computers to open the user properties for the user who is experiencing the issue.

On the Security tab, click Advanced.
Note You must enable advanced features to complete step 3.

Make sure that the MSOL_AD_Sync_RichCoexistence group is listed. If it’s not listed, add the group, and then make sure that the group is granted Allow permissions to write to the attributes that are listed previously.

Note Step 2 may be required if the object does not inherit permissions from the parent. This issue may be resolved by making sure that the object inherits permissions from the parent object.

6. Ensure that in all Exchange Servers (including the inactive ones located in the DR sites), the Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory has the correct ExternalURL: https://mail.contoso.com/ews/exchange.asmx (and is routable from the internet)

Bing is famous for having a different background picture whenever someone browses to Bing. However today onwards, when browsing to Bing using a HTML5 supported browser, it will show a video in the background.